sitter

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɪtə/    美 /ˈsɪtɚ/|[ˈsɪɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
    — The photograph caused a stir last week because it was shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious Taylor Wessing prize, despite the rule that “all photographs must have been taken by the entrant from life and with a living sitter”. However realistic Erica may be, and to me she looks more like a sex doll than a real person, she was certainly not a living sitter.
  2. One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
    — It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
  3. A sitting room.
  4. A participant in a séance who is not a medium.
    — "The sitters had better just take their own places," said the medium.
  5. A broody hen.
  6. A very easy scoring chance. slang
    — How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
  7. Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance in case of a bad trip.

词形变化

sitters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
aisle sitter babysitter bedsitter bed-sitter birdsitter bysitter catsitter childsitter dogsitter facesitter fence-sitter fence sitter granny-sitter hand-sitter homesitter house-sitter house sitter nonsitter petsitter pigsitter polesitter pole-sitter puppysitter sitter-in tailsitter teen-sitter trip sitter window sitter
相关词
Irish setter seater setter sitting duck

词源

From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit + -er.
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